Samuel turner



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S. TURNER.

MEANS FOR SUPPORTING TELEGRAPH WIRES.

No; 253,643 Patented Feb. 14.1882.

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UNITE STATES PATENT ()FFltllE.

SAMUEL TURNER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CORA L. TURNER, OF SAME PLACE.

MEANS FOR SUPPORTING TELEGRAPH-WIRES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 253,643, dated February 14, 1882.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, SAMUEL TURNER, ofthe city of Cincinnati, in Hamilton county, and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Means for Supporting Telegraph and other Wires and Electric Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is more particularly applicable where there is a close congregation of to buildings and the fronts of the buildings are near to or directly abutting on the sidewalk, as is the casein large villages, towns, or cities. One of the principal objects of my invention is conveniently to support the wires in such a {5 manner that none of them shall be over the sidewalk, and that there shall be sufiicient space between the wires and the buildings on either side of the street to admit of easily and conveniently raising the fire-escape ladders against the front of any building in the event of the latter taking fire.

Another object of my invention is to provide a cheap, economical, and substantial means for expeditiously adding to or diminishing the structure for supporting the wires, thus accommodating the structure to the varying number of wires to be supported.

My invention also has for its object the support of electric lamps directly over the main o portion of the roadway and the convenient supplying of said lamps with electric fluid from one of the wires supported on said structure.

The nature of my invention and of its several features will be fully set forth in the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a structure embodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows one mode of connect- 4o ing the sections of my extension posts, and Fig. 3 shows one form which the end of the transverse arch may assume and the manner in which it is connected to the supportingpost. Fig. 4 represents one end of one of the arches 5 B, showing one form of connection with the post A. Fig. 5 represents one of the stanchions for supporting the wires, showing the sectional construction.

A indicates the supporting posts or poles,

so usually located at or near the junction of the sidewalk and the road-bed nfthe street or road. One of these posts is located on one side of the street and the accompanying one on the other side of the street. Arches B extend from one post to the other. To these arches are attached the vertical stanchions C, to which latter are fixed insulators of any suitable form.

The supporting-posts are preferably made in sections, as a, and are united together in any suitable manner. The mode here shown of 6:) connecting the various sections is by telescopejoints, the respective ends of each of the sections beingprovided with shoulders I) b, which prevent one section from slipping too far into the other. The sections may be secured togetlier by bolts passing through these shoulders b b, as shownin Fig. 3.

In cities where the ground is level it will not be found necessary to bolt the ditferent sections together, as their eight and that of 0 the wires will be found sufficient to keep the sections united; but where the ground is rolling it will be found desirable to secure the joints by bolts.

The arches B, extending from one post to the other, may be of a semicircular form, of the configuration herein shown, or of any other desired form.

Various modes of connecting the ends of the arches B to the posts A will be suggested to the manufacturers. For instance, the arches may be provided with Y-shaped extremities, one arm of the extremity passing on either side of the post A and resting on one of the shoulders,b,at the joint between two of the sections 8 a, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4; or the ends of the arches may be simply bolted to one of the sections, as shown in Fig. 2. The stanchions C preferably pass through these arches, as shown in Fig. 4; but they may, if desired, be secured 0 to the sides of the arches. The stanchions are preferably made in sections to permit of other sections being added as more wires are needed.

To these stanchions the wires are attached either directly or,where insulation of the wire 5 is required, by suitable insulators, d.

It will be found preferable not to attach any wires to the lower ends of the outer stanchion s, as wires secured in these positions might interfere with raising very long ladders and fire-es- 10o capes; but should more wires be required an additional section may be added to the posts A and another arch B attached,when another section may be added to each of the stanchions O.

The mode of securing together the sections of the stanchions will vary according to the discretion of the one constructing them and to the material of which they are composed. Preferably they are made of wood, and fitted one within another, as are the sections of a jointed fishing-rod, the ends being duly ferruled to prevent their splitting.

My invention, as will be seen, may he very readily employed to support an electric light and to carry the wire supplying the'light with electric fluid. For instance, an electric lantern, D, may be hung to the lower end of the central stanchion, as shown in Fig. l. and the wire supplying the electric fluid be attached to the stanchion immediately above the lantern. By supporting the lantern in this position it will be over the middle of the street. Pulleys may be attached to the top of the posts A; or, as is shown in Fig. 1, a pulley, E, may be attached to one post and a ring, E, to the other, to be used for hoisting a basket and tools and for repairing the wires or their connections or stretching new lines. This pulley and ring will also be found very useful in aiding to elevate ladders in cases of fire. The posts A are in the present instance shown and described as being constructed of iron; but it will be perfectly obvious that,while this is the preferable mate rial to use in the construction of these poles, they maybe constructed of other materials and very advantageously employed; butifemployed in connection with the arches and stanchions they will fall within the scope of my invention.

The various advantages to the property-owners which my improved means, as herein described,for supporting wires possesses over the common telegraph-poles now in use will be perfectly obvious from the above statement of the nature and objects of my invention; but, besides the advantages accruing therefrom to the property-owners, a great advantageand saving is derived by the telegraph company.

It is a well-known t'actthat when a tire breaks out in a building the telegraph-wires in front of the building on the poles now in use get very hot, and when water comes in contact with them a great many of the wires are broken, which puts the telegraph company to considerable trouble and expense repairing the broken wires. By the use of my invention the wires are supported at a greater distance from the building, and they are therefore not so liable to become heated.

What I claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The arches, as B, and stanchions, as G, vertically arranged upon said arches, and provided with insulators carrying the wires, combined and located substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The arches, as B, stanchions, as (1, arranged upon said arches substantially as described,and constructed in sections and provided with insulators, all combined and located substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

8. The posts A, consisting of sections a, said sections being provided with shoulders b I), in combination with the arches B, the latter being provided with Y-shaped extremities, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

SAMUEL TURNER.

Witnesses:

A. S. LUnLow, E. R. HILL. 

